How long do you see it taking you, in success, to get to the rest of the events in "Red Dragon"? One season? Two seasons?

Bryan Fuller: Season 4 would be "Red Dragon." We have this first season, which was the meet cute of Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham — or "eat cute," I should say. We can drop the m, unless it's "meat cute." I just got a visit from the Easter Punny, so there's a lot to go around. For me, he idea of doing the definitive Hannibal Lecter adaptation was really attractive to me. "Silence of the Lambs" would be season 5 of the timeline. My secret dream is that MGM sees the show, says, "Ohmigod, we love this show. Why don't we collaborate on this season?" But that may be a pipe dream. If they never agree to play ball with us in terms of letting us use some of those characters, then the plan would be to do the events of "Silence of the Lambs," but slightly different. So instead of Buffalo Bill, we would come up with another killer that arcs over the season. Instead of Clarice Starling, we would have Flarice Karling, that tells a bit of that story without interrupting the canon that audiences are expecting. That's fortunately four years away. So hopefully there's inspiration and hopefully collaboration that could make that more fulfilling for me as a Thomas Harris buff, and for audiences who also love those characters and want to see them in this world, and to see what Clarice Starling would be like sitting across from Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter.